I
resulted in there being
no direct
given answer
to the
most
important
issue
of
whether
direct elections should
or should
not be introduced in 1988.
This is
the most
fundamental
flaw
and
have would
been
sufficient
in
itself to
vitiate
the
reliability of the two surveys in
relation to this particular
issue.
Secondly, as to the phraseology of the questions
in
Section F3, all the experts that I
those who
have
a expressed
media, are agreed
the that
questions
have consulted as well as
in view
public through the mass
from the Green copied
Paper
were summary
much too
complicated
and technical to be
Hong
understood by the ordinary citizens of
professional survey company should have
that particular way.
Kong and that no
framed the questions in
was that it
A GB McNair's answer to the Omelco Panel
had decided to adhere straightly to the wording of the options
contained in the summary of the Green Paper as
well as to the
But this was not true
order in which the options were set out.
issues raised in the Green Paper. in relation to some other
For
Section
A 3
in example:
which dealt with the Role of the
District Board, the relevant question contained
some additional
words which
were a clear improvement.
Likewise, in Section Il
which dealt with the sequence and timing
of elections for the
District
Boards,
useful
had words
also
been
added
to
the